By Hilary Nangle on October 13, 2011
Portland, Maine’s, annual Harvest on the Harbor food and wine experience has become the culinary event in a state renowned for its locavore culture, in the town named “America’s Foodiest” by Bon Appetit. Since it’s inception in 2008, the October food-and-wine celebration has grown each year, fed by locals who seem to have an insatiable [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Harvest on the Harbor, Portland |
By Hilary Nangle on August 18, 2011
So many tidbits, I’m just bundling them in nice package for you. By region: Kennebec Valley • The Maine State Museum, in Augusta, is expanding its weekend hours, opening Sundays from 1-4 p.m. through at least Nov. 27, when the pilot project ends. New hours begin Sunday, Aug. 21, when the museum will celebrate with [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Deals, Down East Coast, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Augusta, Bar Harbor, Carrabassett Valley, College of the Atlantic, Maine Huts & Trails, Maine State Museum, Tides Institute and Museum |
By Hilary Nangle on August 14, 2011
Rockland rocks. Named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the small Maine coastal city edging Penobscot Bay retains the heart and spirit of a working town, buzzes with the added pizazz of excellent museums, a vigorous arts scene, surprising restaurants, eclectic shops, and delivers a more than generous serving of lobster, [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Entertainment, Events, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Transportation, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Berry Manor Inn, Brass Compass., Cafe Miranda, Capt. Lindsey House, Farnsworth Museum, First Friday Art WAllk, Granite Inn, Historic Inns of Rockland, in good company, Lily bistro, Limerock Inn, Maine eastern railroad, Maine Lighthouse Museum, Maine Lobster Festival, Marshall Point light, Miller's Lobster, Owls Head Light, Owls Head Transportation Museum, Project Puffin Visitor Center, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, sail power & steam museum, Shell's Southwest Grille, Strand, Sunfire Mexican Grill, Suzuki's Sushi Bar, Sweets & Meats Market, The Brown Bag, WAterman's Beach Lobster |
By Hilary Nangle on August 6, 2011
You don’t have to be an iron man or woman to compete in the Maine State Triathlon, Sunday, Aug. 14, in Bethel, Maine. The competition comprises swimming, cycling, and running, with Songo Pond, on the outskirts of town, as ground zero. Here’s a map of the course. This isn’t an overly demanding tri, in fact, [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Bethel, Maine State Triathlon |
By Hilary Nangle on July 29, 2011
If you love the sounds of a brass band, get yourself to Bethel on Saturday, July 30, for the Second Ripley Brass Band Festival. Not just any brass instruments, mind you, the Yankee Brass Band will be performing 19th-century music on antique instruments. They’ll be joined by three other bands: the Carter Mountain Brass Band, [...]
Posted in Activities, Deals, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Bethel, Brass Band concert, free, outdoor concert |
By Hilary Nangle on July 26, 2011
Say good-bye to July in Maine at one of these great festivals. There’s something for everyone: folk arts, quilts, artisan quilts, and books. Grand Lake Stream Folk Arts Festival Held way Down East in Grand Lake Stream (which gives meaning to the joke, ya cahn’t get they-ah from he-ah). Trust me, this one’s a gem, [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning | Tagged Artisan Bread Fair, Augusta, Belfast, Belfast Bound Book Festival, Grand Lake Stream, Grand Lake Stream Folk Arts Festival, Maine Quilts, The Kneading Conference |
By Hilary Nangle on July 19, 2011
I had the good fortune to sail aboard American’s oldest active commercial schooner, the Lewis R. French, during the Maine Windjammer Association’s annual Parade of Sail by Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. At the helm as we sailed out of Camden was the youngest captain in the fleet, Garth Wells Garth purchased the French in 2003 after [...]
Posted in Boating, Events, Food, Penobscot Bay, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Italian Sausage Soup, Maine Windjammer Association, Parade of Sail, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater light, Schooner Lewis R. French |
By Hilary Nangle on July 12, 2011
The annual Yarmouth Clam Festival is more than a seafood celebration, it’s a full-blown festival, with entertainment, crafts, a parade, and more. Events include bike races, foot races, and canoe and kayak races, as well as concerts, children’s activities, a diaper derby, and, of course, plenty of clams and other Maine seafood. Highlights include: • [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged fireworks, parade, seafood, Yarmouth, Yarmouth Clam Festival |
By Hilary Nangle on July 8, 2011
The Pemaquid Field School, offered by Southern Maine Community College is a three-week hands-on archeological program under the direction of Dr. Neill De Paoli. Participants learn excavation and recording techniques, laboratory procedures, and artifact identification while helping with excavations at Pemaquid Falls, a site with a rich prehistoric and colonial history. Indigenous people used this [...]
Posted in Activities, Events, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged archeological dig, dig into history, history buffs, Pemaquid Falls |
By Hilary Nangle on July 3, 2011
Opera in Maine? You bet! PORTopera’s Young Artists Program is presenting the first-ever performances of Café Vienna, an opera by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas. And it’s not too soon to purchase tix to this year’s Mainstage performance, either. Café Vienna Set in a Vienna coffee house circa 1907, Café Vienna tells the story of [...]
Posted in Events, Greater Portland, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Cafe Vienna, Daughter of the Regiment, Farmington, Old Orchard Beach, Opera at the Mansion, opera in Maine, Portland, PORTOpera, Victoria Mansion |
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